to ask if there is any dentists on here?

My daughter is 7 she will be 8 in october. When she was a baby she didnt really get her teeth until she was 2, it got to the stage where I was really worried because she had to suck hard food until it softened enough for her gums to break it down, but i continued giving her normal food to help the teeth break through the gums.

Anyway fast forward til she is 6 and she started losing baby teeth, she lost 6 in as many weeks, NONE of these have grown back yet. she is still losing teeth but none seem to be taking their place, (sorry 2 on the bottom have but are still only just poking through the gum). She had to get 1 tooth out a few months ago and it literally slipped out of her gum so its not that she has ultra hard gums or anything.

I still have an 'e' in my mouth as there is nothing underneath it, and am also missing one wisdom tooth (I am 40 and have been x rayed). My sister has the same thing on both sides. So it's definitely possible to be missing adult teeth. But the baby teeth wouldn't then be falling out, so I don't think this is the case with your DD.

hi yes that's sounds about right, firstly mostly the 6 ( adult first molar arrives before 1 and 2 many dont notice and think its a baby tooth at back and so it may get missed brushing it is the most common adult tooth to have a filling

the teeth are coming through roughly in correct order which is encouraging , I take it the 2 "d" teeth were extracted by dentist, because she was later getting baby teeth she will almost certainly be late getting adult teeth, we would not normally do x ray investigation until 7.5 years and as she was a least a year late getting baby teeth i do not think you have much to worry about but an xray when she is about 8 might help ,

2 of my sisrers and my dad never had upper canines by sisters still have baby canines and my dad only lost his last baby tooth at age 57 if the adult tooth is missing the baby tooth does not often fall out as it is the erupting adult tooth which sends chemical messages to baby tooth so root is resorbed and then falls out this is why baby teeth never have roots when fall out naturally but do have roots if you have to extract them early